Scotland’s sf & fantasy bookstore

New Titles – w/e 28th July 2018

in hardback:

Anthony Ryan – The Empire of Ashes the 3rd volume of The Draconis Memoria, after The Waking Fire & The Legion of Flame

Brandon Sanderson – Snapshot novella. A pair of detectives have been inserted into a VR replica of a huge city to investigate a crime and return with the knowledge required to solve the crime in the real world…

in large format:

Louise G. White – The Calling Carolyn can travel to another world and, trying to help rescue someone, inadvertently brings a demon back …Louise G. White – Chasing the Demon sequel to The Calling Carolyn is stranded on another world and is slowly being brainwashed…

William Hope Hodgson – The Collected Fiction of WHH: volume 1: The Boats of the Glen Carrig and Other Nautical AdventuresWilliam Hope Hodgson – The Collected Fiction of WHH: volume 2: The House on the Borderland and other Mysterious PlacesWilliam Hope Hodgson – The Collected Fiction of WHH: volume 3: The Ghost Pirates and Other Revenants of the Sea
The first 3 of a 5 volume set of WHH’s complete fiction from Night Shade Books. Very attractive volumes; possibly nicer than the hardcover set they issued a few years ago! Vols 4 (The Night Land) & 5 (The Dream of X ) should follow in September & January

David Stokes (editor) – Around the World volume 1 of a new anthology series called Myriad Lands 19 new fantasy stories from … around the world!

in ‘B’ format:

Vivian Shaw – Dreadful Company sequel to the recent Strange Practice, again about Dr. Greta Helsing, doctor to the undead!Melinda Snodgrass – Hidden World volume 3 of her far future Imperials Saga

Lawrence M. Schoen – Barsk: The Elephant’s Graveyard strange, far-future sf set on a remote planet of uplifted elephant descended people. I really liked the h/c some time ago… Sequel due soon!Jay Kristoff – Lifel1k3 Eve restores a trashed android and together they brave the wilderness seeking the truth about her past…

Ausma Zehanat Khan – Bloodprint a dangerous ancient text must be found to counteract the spread of the evil Talisman cult…

Kim Stanley Robinson – A Short, Sharp Shock reprint of his relatively short 1990 fantasy novel abnout an amnesiac who wakes up on a beach… (it was re-issued a while ago but I haven’t had it in stock until now)

Dominik Parisien & Navah Wolfe (editors) – The Starlit Wood 18 new retellings of (mainly) famous fairy tales from well known authors…

Mike Ashley (editor) – From the Depths and Other Strange Tales of the Sea 15 lesser known weird tales of the sea, all initially published between the 1890s and the early 30s. Part of the British Library‘s new Tales of the Weird series…

in paperback:

Michael Mammay – Planetside called out of retirement and asked to investigate a disappearance from a space station orbitng above a distant war-ravaged planet, Colonel Butler finds himself stonewalled at every turn…

magazines:

Graphite – issue # 8 the previous 5 issues are also back in stock. i.e. from # 3 onwards

Transreal Fiction

Transreal Fiction is a shop dedicated to selling science fiction, fantasy & related books, together with a limited selection of other merchandise.But really, it’s about books. Transreal Fiction opened in April 1997 in Cowgatehead and moved to it’s present location nearby in June 2011. The owner, Mike Calder, first sold sf & f books many years ago and has worked in the business either part- or full-time since. For years he also had a respectable job as well, but that’s another story…

The shop is named after the term coined by Rudy Rucker to describe his fiction and I thought it an apt name for a shop specialising in speculative fiction. And, in case you’re wondering, yes, Rudy Rucker was happy to allow me to use of the term as a name for my shop.